[Winpcap-users] What should be done to get to real 802.11 frames

[Guy Harris]

Deff wrote:

> Please tell me what should be done to get to real 802.11 frames in
> wireless LAN?

Either

	1) install Linux or BSD on your PC

or

	2) use one of the commercial packet analyzers for Windows that supplies 
its own wireless adapter drivers

or

	3) get one of Network Chemistry's Neutrino sensors:

		http://www.networkchemistry.com/products/neutrino/capture.php

	   and run Packetyzer (which is currently the only software that 
supports the TZSP protocol those devices use)

or

	4) write your own driver for your wireless adapter, with support for 
capturing raw 802.11 frames (and support for supplying those frames, 
with the 802.11 header replaced by a fake Ethernet header, to NDIS, so 
you can still use it as a regular network driver), and add support in 
WinPcap for using the "raw 802.11" mode, or find somebody to do that

as the drivers that come with Windows or that are supplied by the 
wireless adapter vendor for Windows don't support that.